Melody Lun
EDUCATION
September 2010 – Present: MD/PhD program
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
May 2010: BA in Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA
Modular Medical Integrated Curriculum (MMEDIC)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am currently investigating the choroid plexus transcriptome and how cerebrospinal
fluid production is regulated in light of brain development and aging.
PUBLICATIONS
Fonkem E, Lun M, Wong ET. Rare phenomenon of extracranial metastasis of
glioblastoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2011 Dec 1;29(34):4594-5.
Lun M, Lok E, Gautam S, Wu E, Wong ET. The natural history of extracranial
metastasis from glioblastoma multiforme. Journal of Neuro-oncology. 2011
Nov;105(2):261-73.
Wong ET, Gautam S, Malchow C, Lun M, Pan E, Brem S. Bevacizumab for recurrent
glioblastoma multiforme: a meta-analysis. Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer
Network. 2011 Apr;9(4):403-7.
Lehtinen MK, Zappaterra MW, Chen X, Yang YJ, Hill A, Lun M, Maynard T, Gonzalez
D, Kim S, Ye P, D’Ercole AJ, Wong ET, LaMantia AS, Walsh CA. The cerebrospinal
fluid provides a proliferative niche for neural progenitor cells. Neuron. 2011 March
10;69(5): 893-905.
PRESENTATIONS
Lun MP, Salinas V, Broadbelt KG, Steen, M, Lehtinen MK. Characterizing IGF2
availability in aging cerebrospinal fluid. AFAR Grantee Conference. Santa Barbara, CA.
June 3, 2014.
AWARDS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
American Federation of Aging Research – Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for
Research in the Biology of Aging (2013)
American Brain Tumor Association – Medical Student Summer Fellowship (2011)